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FpML 4.3 states it is backwards compatible with 4.2 (http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/lcwd-fpml-4-3-2007-10-30/html/index.html with one proviso 1.6.2.1) If this is true, one should be able to validate a 4.2 message using the 4.3 schema in any tool that supports validation against schema. However, this is not possible due to the namespace naming policy. http://www.fpml.org/spec/2007/tr-fpml-arch-2-1-2007-09-17/ – 4.4.1 That calls … Continued

At the moment it is just a TODO in the trunk: ISDA2002 ISDA2002Equity TODO

VersionedTradeId ought to carry an id (xsd:ID) attribute by symmetry with TradeId, enabling the versioned identifier to be referenced at the component level.

It now reads: … There can only be two domain values for this element: “aboveTrigger” or “belowTrigger”. The values are actually “Above” and “Below” as defined in type TriggerConditionEnum . I suggets to reword the annotation as follows: The condition that applies to a European-style trigger. It determines where the rate at expiry date and … Continued

The Stub complexType has defined as 1..* but the documentation consistently says that there can be up to two rates specified – suggest we change the cardinality to 1..2 instead.

There seem to be strange characters in the annotations in German. Apparently they make some tools choke. Example: fpml-shared-4-3.xsd Sofern nicht anderweitig festgelegt, das Haupt-Clearingsystem, das blicherweise fr die Regulierung von Geschften im entsprechenden Basiswert verwendet wird. I am not sure if this is a bug in the tools or in the schema. Same problem … Continued

Document element settlementType and settlementDate within OptionSettlement.model

Document element entitlementCurrency within OptionDenomination.model

Attached here are 11 additional rules proposed for Contracts Messaging.

We agreed to use XPath for paths and we use it everywhere except for contexts. The context paths should be changed to be XPath. ## Example with shared-5 ## Today we have: Context: payerPartyReference This would become: Context: //payerPartyReference ## Example with eqd-1 ## Today we have: Context: EquityAmericanExercise (complex type) This would become: Context: … Continued